Gigabyte Radeon 9600 pro,overclocking

[doomforce]

So what do u think on the purchase?
With the package comes a nifty software prog that allows manual overclocking on the desktop.
Core Clock is 400 Mhz and memory clock 298 Mhz.
Where can i set those so that i can have max performance without fried chipsets?
the card hasnt been modifed whatsoever,and i thought that r9600 pro's were hard to overclock..is there any better way to do it?
btw the progs name is V-tuner.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Personally i would have taken a r9500 Pro, the 9600 isnt that impressive

As for overclockin try this:


http://www.sysopt.com/articles/VCOGuide/index.html

You may or may not need a BIOS flash though to allow overclocking

--Jakk:t

[causticVapor]

Radeon 9600s have lots of overclocking headroom, but even when extensively overclocked they fail to outperform 9500 Pros at stock speeds.

They do run cool, however.

[doomforce]

i couldnt find a 9500pro,so i went with a 9600...hope the choice serves me well for the time to come.
anyone familiar with v-tuner?
moreover,how can i know where to set the cards mhz's(the max values) so as not to fry the chipset?

[Izdaari]

First see if it performs well enough for you without overclocking. Articles I've seen say the 9600 Pro is slower than a 9500 Pro with both at stock speed, but equal to it when both are overclocked. But as always, overclocking makes more heat and shortens the life of hardware, so I wouldn't do it on everything, just when needed. I'm still running my Ti4200 at stock, but I'll OC it when/if I need to for the new games coming out while saving for a better card.

Can't help with how to OC that, haven't owned an ATI card for years though my next one may well be.

[strshptpr9]

Grab the PowerStrip utility. It works great with ATI boards for oc'ing